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57 varieties ( H J Heinz advertising slogan )
A bank you can bank on ( Westpac Bank advertising slogan )
A drowning man
will
clutch at a straw
A golden key can open any door
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A kick at the can
A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
Accept
a wooden nickel
Accept
that some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue
Accept
with thanks
Accidents
will
happen
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Against your
will
All I know is what I read in the papers (
Will
Rogers quotation )
And Your Bird Can Sing ( Beatles song )
Any time, anywhere, acid indigestion can catch you out ( Alka Selzer advertising slogan )
Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better ( Judy Garland song )
Appearances can be deceptive
As far as the eye can see
As well as can be expected
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country
Baby you can drive my car ( Beatles song lyric )
Baby, you can park my car
Be all that you can be ( United States Army advertising slogan )
Be all you can be ( US Army advertising slogan )
Bend to my
will
Bite off more than you can chew
Blood
will
out
Boys
will
be boys
Buddy can you spare a dime?
Build a better mousetrap and the world
will
beat a path to your door
Business is like a car, it
will
not run by itself except downhill
Can I Get A Witness? ( Marvin Gaye song )
Can I have a 'p' please, bob ( A catchphrase from Blockbusters )
Can I help you?
Can You Feel The Love Tonight? ( Elton John song )
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? ( Bob Dylan song )
Can it
Can of corn ( A baseball expression meaning a ball which is easy to catch )
Can of worms
Can we fix it? Yes, we can! ( Bob The Builder slogan )
Can you believe it?
Can you dig it?
Can you hear me now? Good! ( Verizon wireless advertising slogan )
Can you hear me, mother? ( A catchphrase from Sandy Powell )
Can you tell Stork from butter? ( Stork Margarine advertising slogan )
Can you tell what it is yet? ( A catchphrase from Rolf Harris )
Can't hold a candle to
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Can't make head or tail of it
Can't see beyond the end of your nose
Can't see the wood for the trees
Can't win for losing
Carry the can
Cat On A Hot
Tin
Roof ( play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie )
Catch as catch can
Cooler heads
will
prevail
Danger,
Will
Robinson ( A catchphrase from The Robot In Lost In Space )
Does exactly what it says on the
tin
( Ronseal advertising slogan )
Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes
Don't try to run before you can walk
Don't try to walk before you can crawl
Even a worm
will
turn
Faith
will
move mountains
Flattery
will
get you everywhere
Flattery
will
get you nowhere
For the benefit of Mr.Kite there
will
be a show tonight on trampoline ( Beatles song lyric )
Free
will
Gentlemen we can rebuild him. We have the technology. ( A catchphrase from Six Million Dollar Man )
Get a can on
Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It (
Will
Smith song )
Give a man enough rope and he
will
hang himself
Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid ( Fairy Liquid advertising slogan )
Have gun,
will
travel ( A catchphrase from TV series )
He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches ( George Bernard Shaw quotation )
He
will
give the Devil his due
He
will
never play the piano again
Heads
will
roll
Heaven Can Wait ( Warren Beatty movie )
How much can you handle ( Bubble Tape advertising slogan )
How wrong can you be?
I Can Help ( Billy Swan song )
I Can See Clearly Now ( Johnny Cash and Jimmy Cliff song and Nescafe advertising slogan )
I
Will
Always Love You ( Whitney Houston song )
I
Will
Survive ( Gloria Gaynor song )
I can read you like a book
I can see you standing over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove ( Groucho Marx line )
I can't believe my eyes
I
will
if you
will
I
will
make you fishers of men
I
will
wear my heart upon my sleeve
If I tell you I
will
have to shoot you
If anything can go wrong, it
will
If drafted, I
will
not run; if nominated, I
will
not accept; if elected, I
will
not serve
If you build it they
will
come
If you can keep your head when all about you ( from a poem by Kipling )
If you don't stand for something you
will
fall for anything ( Malcolm X quotation )
If you got the munchies, nothing else
will
do! ( Hostess potato chips advertising slogan )
If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer
will
cure that headache ( Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan )
If you lie down with dogs, you
will
get up with fleas
Ill
will
In the can
It ain't braggin' if you can do it
It can only be Heineken ( Heineken advertising slogan )
It
will
all end in tears
It
will
be all right on the night
It
will
blow over
It's the empty can that makes the most noise
Joe Six Pack
Just 15 minutes can save you 15 percent or more on car insurance ( GEICO advertising slogan )
Keep the shop and the shop
will
keep you
Kick the can further down the road
Knowing me, knowing you, it's the best I can do ( ABBA lyric )
Last
will
and testament
Like a cat on a hot
tin
roof
Listen I
will
say zis only wunce ( A catchphrase from Allo Allo )
Little
tin
god
Live today. Tomorrow
will
cost more ( Pan-Am World Airways advertising slogan )
Living
will
Look after the pennies and the pounds
will
look after themselves
Looks can be deceiving
Love
will
find a way
More than flesh and blood can stand
More than you can shake a stick at
Multimedia you can use ( Apple Computer advertising slogan )
Murder
will
out
My Heart
Will
Go On ( Celine Dion song )
Never Can Say Goodbye ( The Jackson 5 song )
Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow
Never had it, never
will
( 7-Up advertising slogan )
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow ( Mark Twain quotation )
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
Nice work if you can get it
No can do
No man can serve two masters
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent ( Eleanor Roosevelt quotation )
Nobody Can Do It Like McDonald's Can ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
Nobody Makes Your Day Like McDonald's Can ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
Nobody can say no to the honey nut Os in Honey Nut Cheerios ( Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan )
Oil Can ( Nickname of Dennis Boyd )
On The Road Again (
Canned
Heat song )
Only Love Can Break Your Heart ( Neil Young song )
Only time
will
tell
Only you can prevent forest fires ( United States Forest Service advertising slogan )
Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can ( line from nursery rhyme )
Please don't squeeze the Charmin
toilet
tissue ( Charmin advertising slogan )
Put the
tin
hat on it
Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle
will
rock ( line from nursery rhyme )
See what brown can do for you ( UPS advertising slogan )
Six pack
Smoke Craven 'A' -
will
not affect your throat ( Craven 'A' Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Soft, strong and very long ( Andrex
toilet
tissue advertising slogan )
Some day my prince
will
come
Some day my prints
will
come
Starch free as a chip can be ( Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan )
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words
will
never hurt me
Stop, or my mom
will
shoot ( line from Sylvestor Stallone movie )
Suck it up (
accept
a bad situation and move on )
Switch hitter ( A baseball expression denoting a batter who can hit left or right handed )
Take care of the pence and the pounds
will
take care of themselves
Take your pleasure where you can find it
That and a nickel
will
get you a ride on the subway
The Revolution
Will
Not Be Televised ( Gil Scott-Heron song )
The Thrill ( Nickname of
Will
Clark )
The army national guard, you can ( US Army National Guard advertising slogan )
The best a man can get ( Gillette advertising slogan )
The best that money can buy
The court
will
rise
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n ( from a poem by Milton )
The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! ( Chevrolet advertising slogan )
The smallest worm
will
turn, being trodden on
The sweet you can eat between meals without losing your appetite ( Milky Way advertising slogan )
The truth
will
out
There are none so blind as those that
will
not see
There
will
be an answer, let it be ( The Beatles song lyric )
There
will
be tears before bedtime
There's none so blind as those who
will
not see
There's none so deaf as they that
will
not hear
There's nothing you can do that can't be done ( The Beatles song lyric )
They
will
do anything
Think what we can do for you ( Bank of America advertising slogan )
This one
will
run and run
This tape
will
self-destruct in five seconds ( A catchphrase from Mission Impossible )
This time next year we
will
be millionaires ( A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses )
Those who sleep with dogs
will
rise with fleas
Throw enough dirt and some
will
stick
Time
will
tell
Tin
ear
Today something we do
will
touch your life ( Union Carbide and Carbon advertising slogan )
Toilet
humour
Toilet
mouth ( a foul mouthed person )
Toilet
trained
Tomorrow
will
be cancelled due to lack of interest
Two can play at that game
We Can Work It Out ( Beatles song )
We
Will
Rock You ( Queen song )
We drink all we can, the rest we sell ( Utica Club advertising slogan )
We
will
cross that bridge when we come to it
We
will
fight on the beaches
We
will
sell no wine before it is time ( Paul Masson Wines advertising slogan )
What
will
you do with all the money you save? ( Toyota advertising slogan )
What's the worst that can happen? ( Dr Pepper advertising slogan )
Whatever
will
be
will
be
When better automobiles are built, Buick
will
build them ( Buick advertising slogan )
When the bough breaks the cradle
will
fall, and down
will
come baby, cradle and all ( line from nursery rhyme )
When the cat's away the mice
will
play
When the oak is before the ash, then you
will
only get a splash; when the ash
Where there's a
will
there's a way
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right ( Henry Ford quotation )
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty? ( ABBA lyric )
Who
will
rid me of this troublesome priest?
Why have low calories when you can have no calories ( Natrena advertising slogan )
Will
You Still Love Me Tomorrow? ( Carole King song )
Will
do
Will
no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
Will
the real ... stand up? ( A catchphrase from To Tell The Truth )
Wind someone up ( deliberately draw attention to something that
will
create agitation )
With the best
will
in the world
Without us, some guys
will
starve ( Carl's Jr. advertising slogan )
Yes Sir, I Can Boogie ( Baccara song )
Yes we can
Yes you can ( Sprint advertising slogan )
You Can Call Me Al ( Paul Simon song )
You Never Can Tell ( Chuck Berry song )
You can always get it at the Co-op ( Co-op advertising slogan )
You can bank on it
You can be sure of Shell ( Shell advertising slogan )
You can break a brolly but you can't k-nacker a Knirps ( Knirps advertising slogan )
You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family
You can count on me
You can have any colour as long as it's black
You can have too much of a good thing
You can kiss that one goodbye
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think
You can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff ( Groucho Marx line )
You can pay me now or pay me later
You can put that where the monkey keeps his nuts
You can put that where the sun doesn't shine
You can rely on the lion ( British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan )
You can run but you can't hide
You can take that to the bank
You can trust your car to the man who wears the star ( Texaco Fuel advertising slogan )
You can whistle for it
You can with a Nissan ( Nissan Cars advertising slogan )
You never can tell
You too can have a body like mine ( Charles Atlas advertising slogan )
Your mission, if you choose to
accept
it ... ( A catchphrase from Mission Impossible )